Special to WorldTribune.com By Stephen Moore Everywhere I go, people are mystified about President Joe Biden’s economic agenda. So few of the policies comport with basic common sense that I’m asked the same question over and over: Is Biden intentionally trying to take a wrecking ball to the economy? Is this all part of some […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Stephen Moore, October 18, 2022 It was about eight to 10 years ago that the Left made a unilateral decision to shut down all opposition and any skepticism about climate change by pronouncing that the debate was over. The “scientific consensus” had been reached, as if sent down on tablets from […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Stephen Moore When new British Prime Minister Liz Truss suggested lowering the United Kingdom’s highest tax rate from 45% to 40%, along with a 1% reduction in the income tax rate for all taxpayers, the bond markets and the central bankers around the world went stark raving mad. The academic pinheads […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Stephen Moore In just the last few weeks, Liz Truss, Britain’s new prime minister, has been denounced by critics as a “fascist.” So has Giorgia Meloni, Italy’s newly elected prime minister. Along with all Republicans in Congress, Texas and Florida GOP Govs. Greg Abbott and Ron DeSantis and, of course, former […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Stephen Moore Just in time for the heat of the election season, a federal agency called the Commodity Futures Trading Commission has announced it will no longer allow betting on political and election outcomes. These online wagering platforms, most notably PredictIt, allow betting on all sorts of political outcomes: the odds […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Stephen Moore The Left has always hated cars — or at least the idea that there should be a car in every driveway. Now, it is stepping up its assault. In 2035, every car purchased in California, with its nearly 40 million people, will have to be an electric vehicle. Why? […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Stephen Moore In September 2020, at the first presidential debate between him and President Donald Trump, Democratic nominee Joe Biden infamously declared, “Nobody’s going to build another coal-fired power plant in America” if he won the White House against Trump. Even with comments like this, the United Mine Workers of America […]
Special to WorldTribune.com by Stephen Moore The great Rush Limbaugh used to say that “the modern environmentalists worship the created, not the creator.” I was reminded of that after listening to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi once President Joe Biden signed the fiscally unconscionable $750 billion tax-and-spend Inflation Reduction Act, which gives another $369 billion to […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Stephen Moore, August 15, 2022 The Biden administration has a lot of nerve proposing to double the budget of the Internal Revenue Service and add 87,000 employees. This plan is set to become law as part of the soon-to-be-enacted Inflation Reduction Act. And it comes around the same time as the […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Stephen Moore Everyone should be deeply troubled by the recent report that the Army is on pace to miss its recruiting goal by dozens of thousands of troops and by the report that followed a few days later, alleging that the Border Patrol is running short of agents in Arizona and […]
